NASA's Ingenuity Makes Historic First Powered Flight On Mars
Ingenuity is a tissue box sized helicopter that hovered in the super thin Martian atmosphere, took some pictures and landed safely.
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SpaceX Wins $2.9 Billion Contract For Next Lunar Lander
The company beat out two others in its bid to develop a lunar lander that will bring Americans back to the moon in the coming years.
'What Is That In The Sky?' Floridians Catch Meteor's Close Brush With Earth
Dashcam footage and home surveillance video captured the fireball that lit up the night sky on Monday.
With Mini Helicopter On Mars, NASA Hopes To Reinvent Flight 'On Another World'
The successful deployment of Ingenuity brings NASA one step closer to its first attempt at testing the possibility of powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Asteroid Apophis Not A Risk To Earth For At Least 100 Years, NASA Says
The asteroid Apophis was taken off of NASA's "risk list" after the space agency determined earlier this month that it poses no risk of impact to Earth within the next century.
Satellite Launched On Mission To Remove Space Trash
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Jason Forshaw, an aerospace engineer at Astroscale, about ELSA-d, a machine used to clean up junk in space.
New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Prepares To Launch
Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, some of the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth.
Glynn Lunney, NASA Flight Director With A Key Role In Saving Apollo 13, Dies At 84
Lunney, who played an integral role in the agency's Apollo program, died Friday. He was credited for his quick decision-making during the race to save the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts.
Biden To Nominate Former Sen. Bill Nelson Of Florida As NASA Head
Nelson, who spent six days in orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986, would succeed Trump-era Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
Emily Levesque: How Have Telescopes Transformed Our Understanding Of The Universe?
Astronomers once gazed at the night sky and charted the stars using their naked eyes. Astrophysicist Emily Levesque describes how generations of telescopes have unlocked the wonders of the universe.